Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood made a surprise appearance on Netflix yesterday. The newest season of House of Cards hit the streaming service Wednesday afternoon, but was taken down immediately. The early release was an accident, according to The Hollywood Reporter. For now, HOC fans will have to wait until the original premiere date of Feb. […]
Conde Nast Entertainment added Univision bicultural video network Flama to its digital platform The Scene. The deal brings more than 100 original Flama episodes to The Scene’s roster, with plans for co-developed projects in the future. Flama originally launched on YouTube in 2013 and became its own destination in April 2014; it has since produced […]
NASCAR’s RaceBuddy platform is going full season. Thanks to its new 10-year media partnership with FOX Sports, NASCAR announced that fans will now have access to the digital video complement to the race broadcast throughout the entire 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season for the first time ever. RaceBuddy now revs up with the Sprint […]
Famed tennis player Caroline Wazniacki is Godiva’s new global celebrity ambassador. The chocolatier’s deal marks the first global celebrity partnership for the brand as well as the first confectionery deal for Wozniacki. According to the announcement the brand reached out to Wozniacki after company CFO Dave Marberger read about Wozniacki’s love of chocolate in a […]
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is leaving Comedy Central when his contract expires this year, a move confirmed by the network. “For the better part of the last two decades, I have had the incredible honor and privilege of working with Jon Stewart,” said Comedy president Michele Ganeless. “His comedic brilliance is second to none…. […]
NBC News is suspending Brian Williams from NBC Nightly News, where he is Chief Anchor and Managing Editor, for six months without pay as a result of misleading statements Williams made about covering the Iraq War in 2003. Lester Holt will continue as substitute anchor. “We believe this suspension is the appropriate and proportionate action,” […]
The IAB extended the fourth annual Digital Content NewFronts by an additional day; they will now run from April 27 to May 7. The ten companies being added to the festivities are Beatport, Bloomberg Media, Collective Digital Studio, DailyMail.com/Elite Daily, DEFY Media, Endemol Beyond, Lin Digital, StyleHaul, The Street and Whistle Sports Network. Here’s the […]
Vimeo landed exclusive U.S. first window download rights to the documentary from Oscar-winner Alex Gibney called Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief. Originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the doc is based on Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright’s book of the same name, which profiles eight former members of the Church of […]
The English Premier League fattened its wallet, with Britain’s Sky and BT signing on to pay around $7.8 billion for a three-year domestic rights deal in the country. That marks a 70% spike over the previous contract with the new accord running through 2018, and joins an earlier deal with the BBC announced a month […]
DICK’S Sporting Goods is buying in to Team USA, announcing a sponsorship deal with the United States Olympic Committee that makes the retailer the Official Sporting Goods Retail Sponsor to the USOC and Team USA. The partnership will include an in-store employment program and sporting goods equipment donations, as needed, to the U.S. Olympic Training […]